Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line

From:

Dan Nicolaescu

Subject:

Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line

Date:

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 06:53:48 -0800 (PST)

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:53 PM, J. David Boyd <address@hidden> wrote:
> > address@hidden (J. David Boyd) writes:
> >
> >> address@hidden (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
> >>
> >>> Tyler Smith <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> address@hidden (J. David Boyd) writes:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I could use some help troubleshooting this.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> When I start up emacs, it doesn't load the files I name on the command
> >>>>> line, unless I do an 'emacs -q' to not load any init files.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Obviously, it must be something in my .emacs file, but I don't see
> >>>>> anything that I've changed in the recent past.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Where should I start to debug this? I don't get any errors when it
> >>>>> runs, it just refuses to load anything from the command line.
> >>>>
> >>>> At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried commenting out all
of
> >>>> your .emacs, then progressively uncommenting it to isolate the lines
> >>>> that are causing the problem? comment-region (aka M-;) makes this
> >>>> pretty quick to do.
> >>>
> >>> Also, the OP could try:
> >>>
> >>> emacs --debug-init file.txt
> >>>
> >>> If the file is not open it might be because there's a bug in ~/.emacs
> >>
> >>
> >> That I have tried. No errors at all... I was hoping that there would
> >> be one, but everything loads just fine, no errors, just doesn't load the
> >> file(s) named on the command line.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the idea, though.
> >
> > Found it! I've been calling table.el for years, but somehow it must be
> > incompatible with emacs 23.1.1. Took that out, works great. Never used
> > the functionality in it anyway...
> >
> > Dave
>
>
> The file table.el is included in Emacs now.
>
> This is not the first time I have seen quite interesting side effects
> from using old versions of a file that has later been included in
> Emacs. I think that some test should be made after startup for
> potential such loadings. (This could be run conditionally after all
> init files.)
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